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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 11:56 PM) That, and, poor people CAN get them now and in fact DO get them. But keep burying your head in the sand on that point. AGAIN, no one is saying REAL reform shouldn't be done, but any road to government takeover of the insurance or health care profession should flat out be rejected. But no one wants to talk REAL reform, because all the drones have already set in motion the biggest boondoggle in American history. And no, no Kaperbole ™ here. And you pay for those people to get them in the form of higher medical bills.

There are Americans willing to do those jobs after all. Provided the wages are right. I'm willing to wager that the illegal population working at a Swift plant was not earning the same amount as the legal population was. Nor were they paying for the same benefits for that illegal population either.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 09:23 PM) I would also like to call bulls*** for every one of you people who keep saying "more tests, the more they get paid". That's wrong. Flat out wrong. They diagnose, they get paid a contractual amount per that diagnosis. Period. No more, no less. Then they refer the people to get tests done. The labs who perform the tests then get paid via a pre-agreed contractual obligation. Period. No more, no less. Still, defensive medicine AS A WHOLE does cost money. It's something that captures a lot of procedures and doctors. With all that said, "the doctors were ordering vastly more care for the same amount of tests" is a fallacy dictated by payor mix, contractual obligations, and a different structure - and "worse health care outcomes" is also a fallacy. The whole thing is a sham to make you think that you're on the road to health care hell when it's simply not the case. So individual doctors aren't making more money, but don't many medical centers perform their own phlebotomy and testing procedures? So wouldn't bundling in extra tests and such mean more money for the corporation owning the center where a doctor works? If that's true, is the solution prohibiting vertical integration and tort reform?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) But there is definitely something wrong with that... I know, it was really more of a chapter 4 moment...

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 04:59 PM) The sultry Hank Johnson can kiss my white ass?!? Oh my. . . So you've read chapter three of "Rexerotica" after all....

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 15, 2009 -> 03:21 PM) Race, as always, is a tricky subject. Where one person sees racism, another may not. What offends one group may not even cause others to shrug their shoulders. But as a while man, after reading this story, I have to say that Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga. can kiss my ass. I am sick of hearing how every criticsm of Obama is racism, veiled or otherwise. WHITE PEOPLE CAN disagree with his positions on principle. We can even disagree with them on a party basis. I can say unequivocally that my disagreements with him have absolutely nothing to do with his race, and take personal offense to the constant suggestion that every time a white guy speaks up, you see racism. Look within yourself and quit projecting onto others. YOU always see race first, sir. The constant shout of racism does a disservice to those that ARE truely effected by it and dilutes whatever credibility you think you have. You criticize the balking by the Blue Dogs bringing race into the forefront. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124865363472782519.html Then, you try to equate Wilson with the KKK? There is more at the link, but this is the money paragraph. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15...wilson-rebuked/ I realize that you took over for Cynthia McKinney, but that doesn't mean you need to be as bat-s*** crazy as she is. Oh, and for the 2 or 3 of you that will no doubt come on here and type something about 'manufactured outrage', you can also kiss my pasty white a$$. Nothing manufactured about it. There's quite a bit in Wilson's history to support a racist allegation about him specifically. Otherwise, Hank Johnson can kiss my white ass too. However, I prefer the adjective "sultry."

I'm more upset with the Obama administration's appeal to overturn a ruling to allow very limited judicial rights to six year inmates of Bagram prison.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 06:17 PM) What influence. They get shown on TV, and then portrayed as wakkos. That is exactly the worst possible thing for them. Even if they don't they are immediately proceded by someone telling the audience why what they saw was just wrong. The most popular cable news network, by far, is Fox News. It's two most popular programs is Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck. Both shows in the past six weeks have been regularly viewed by upwords of 3 million people, nearly triple anything on CNN and double the highest rated programming on MSNBC. Bill O'Reilly is generally pretty rude, and nasty. Glenn Beck is just bats*** crazy on any average day. The most popular talk radio shows belong to conservatives. Rush Limbaugh who says crazy s*** all the time. And stood up for a Congressman breaking decorum to personally insult a sitting President during a joint address to Congress last week. Among the most popular Conservative columnists is Ann Coulter. She says bats*** crazy things all the time and has made a career of being patently offensive. She sells hundreds of thousands of books with every release. These people represent some of the most extreme voices in the conservative movement. Yet they enjoy a bigger audience than most of the crazy left wing people that proud liberals wear like an albatross around their collective neck. As not necessarily accurate as it is, you're often judged by the company you keep. This is the company the mainstream GOP keeps.

Glenn Beck is the hottest thing on Fox News. Too bad they aren't making much money off it anymore. According to Colorofchange.org, the organization that led the Beck boycott - every one of the 62 major advertisers that were buying space on Glenn Beck have pulled their ads. http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=14262 Net loss to Fox? About a half million a week at 5PM, alone.

While you weren't looking, Pennsylvania decided to argue instead of passing a budget. It's been months without one. As a result? The City of Philadelphia's free libraries will completely shut down on October 2 for lack of funds.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 12:50 PM) Is Skol good? I unfairly connect it in my mind with skol vodka in the states. I think Original is Antarctica? I might be wrong, but I've definitely had Antarctica. They have tasty beers down here, though not much variety thus far. Cachaca, cheese, meat, all good. Also funny, when describing a brazilian item to you, it's always not how you would describe it. "Pao de quejo, it's like this wonderful bread that's soft with cheese on it" "Oh so it's like cheese bread" "No it's not cheese bread its pao de quejo". "Requejaio is like this creamy spreadable cheese you put on bread" "So it's cream cheese!" "No it's not cream cheese it's Requejaio" It was good enough for me, its what the cabana bars would bring me after 2 when I was transitioning away from Caparinhas.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 12:04 PM) on Saturday, I saw a bunch of those Tea Party people lining up on Randall Road in Geneva. (for those who don't know, Randall's a pretty busy 4-6 lane street) I slowed down, honked my horn and when the waived/looked at me, I flipped them a strong bird. Sorry, but that's lame.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 10:22 AM) I'm with you, people seem really upset about this. It was the VMA's. Who cares. It was probably staged anyways. That's what I thought. He walked the red carpet with a half empty bottle of Hennessy. You'd think they'd have kept a better eye on him as blitzed as he was. Apparently, he's all about Spinning classes in Manhattan, I'm told these days.

I always liked Antartica, the official beer of Antartica. Or at least that's what the can says. Skol is great too. Have a blast out there, Brazil is the best.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 14, 2009 -> 01:03 AM) Ah yes, people stand for nothing when it's not wailing on George W. Bush's policies. I get it. Actually, I didn't say they don't stand for anything. I just didn't exactly see a singular cause that brought out people. If it wasn't healthcare, it was the bailout, or the deficit, or this, or that. What I'm saying is that they don't exactly have a specific agenda that they are pushing - at least as far as I can see.

They say you get old when your favorite Beatle goes from John to Paul. It's still John for me. And as for Paul taking credit for the solo in "The End," Paul would take credit for half of John Lennon's solo catalogue if he could get away with it. Unless its Magical Mystery Tour, where everyone says that was all Paul, and Paul says "I don't know whose idea that was." Ringo Starr's greatest contribution to the band (one of my favorite rock n roll moments actually) - "I GOT BLISTERS ON ME FINGERS!"

I think its great to see so many people politically motivated for what is hopefully the right reasons, even if I disagree with their positions. That is if I could figure out what those positions were. The dude from FreedomWorks who was one of the organizers of the event said 450K and I'd take that number at their word.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 11:12 AM) It's likely going to be a wash on donations. There has been a front page Druge ad for Wilson and the GOP is reporting he will go over $1,000,000 in recent contributions. Top that off with his insurance industry bribes, I don't think he will be at a fund raising disadvantage for elections next year. It does energize Wilson's opponent base however. And a smart candidate will figure out a way to motivate them beyond this.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 11, 2009 -> 08:58 AM) Turns out Illinois Republican House Rep John Shimkus walked out of the speech early. Not as bad as the shout-out, but still inappropriate and unprofessional. This isn't a baseball game, jackass. I'm now going to go find out where his district is, and see who his likely opponent will be in 2010. That is precedented. I think about 20 congressmen walked out of a State of the Union address before.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 08:17 PM) A number of my more conservative friends have been recommending I read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, lately. I've already read it as it turns out. The small government conservatives (not the screechy preachy social agendaites) are of the opinion that is where we are headed. Ayn Rand is the big hero of libertarians. Was really into it when I was younger. Objectivists believe that there is virtue in selfishness.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 03:06 PM) I can't get to my copy, but I believe that hr3200 only specificly exempts illegals from receiving health credits or some such thing as that, not from having to get insurance or be covered by it. So it just says that they won't be subsidized. That won't last long. So you have a problem with providing people who can afford to pay for insurance the opportunity to be insured?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 01:38 PM) The end of life counselling sessions are just that, as you say. but there will still be a panel of bureaucrats somewhere deciding just what kind of care and how much of it you get. And if they deny you something that could have saved your life, you have a defacto death panel. Again, you are not focusing on the overall picture, and her true meaning and intent. Must be that R in her party affiliation that prevents that. The end of life counselling sessions refer to covering a consultation about hospice care and other end of care decisions. Consultation about options does not mean decisions are made by anyone.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 07:30 PM) It was also the Cater administration's idea to provide aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan when the Soviets started intervening. Reagan's people took that idea and ran with it. Carter helped worsen famine in Ethiopia too I believe.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2009 -> 11:25 PM) Even I have to call B.S. on this one. You're flat out wrong. You're right, I'm wrong on this. I am thinking of the Code Pink protests and thought that was what he was referring to.